Tolkien Fan Fiction Survey

[dawn_felagund]

In January 2015, I will be presenting a paper about the Tolkien fan fiction community at the Mythmoot III conference in Baltimore. While other fandoms have been studied in depth, particularly television fandoms, very little study has been done on the Tolkien fandom, and my ten years of experience in this community have caused me to conclude that, while we share some similarities with other fandoms, we also differ in some important regards. I hope, through my Mythmoot presentation, to provide not only background on our community, its history, and its practices for an audience that may not be familiar with the fan fiction community, but also to begin to identify and examine some of the ways that our community differs from how fandom has been understood and presented by scholars.

As part of this, I have put together a survey for participants in the Tolkien fan fiction community. The purpose of the survey is to collect data on the habits, beliefs, and preferences of Tolkien fans who participate in reading and/or writing fan fiction. No identifying information, including IP address, is collected as part of the survey. You may skip any questions you do not want to answer or quit the survey at any time. I estimate that it will take about 15-20 minutes to complete.

If you have ever read or written Tolkien-based fan fiction, you are eligible to participate.

Click here to begin the Tolkien Fan Fiction Survey.

Please feel free to direct any questions, comments, or concerns to me via email (DawnFelagund@gmail.com) or private message. And do feel free to share the link to the survey or a link to this post; I would like to get as many perspectives as possible from as many corners of our community as possible.

Comments

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

This is wonderful! Filling out your survey took me back to my first Tolkien fanfiction paper. :) If you'd like to reference my two papers, though they're a decade old now (sigh), let me know. I don't think I moved them from HASA to A03, but they're at the bottom of this page on my (equally ancient) website: http://thrihyrne.net/FanfictionListings.html

Or you can read them for giggles and see how naive I was when I first entered fandom! ;)

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you so much--for taking the survey and for linking me to your papers! :D I will definitely take a look, and I appreciate something from when I first started in fandom; I would like more from "back in the day" versus currently. Most of my respondents have come from Tumblr, which is fine, but definitely represents the newer wave of fans.

Thanks again!

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

here is a possible place
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Henneth_Annun/info

[dawn_felagund]

Thank you! I am actually a member there and am going to do all my mailing list promos today. :)

[dreamflower]

Hey Dawn! That was a fun survey--maybe you should crosspost to the GFIC Yahoo! group and to lotr_community!

[dawn_felagund]

I'm going to do my mailing list promos today. I didn't know if it'd be okay to post to the LJ comm, but if you're cool with it, I'm not going to turn down the chance to get a wider variety of respondents. :)

[dreamflower]

Sure, it's okay, you're a co-mod after all! I think we actually have a "signal boost" tag. If we don't we ought to.